Norman Gasbarro | January 21, 2011
In the post of yesterday, the Pennsylvania Veterans’ Card File was discussed as originally intended as an index to Bates’ History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, the official five volume history of the Pennsylvania’s volunteer involvement in the Civil War. Samuel Penniman Bates (1827-1902) was from Meadville, Pennsylvania, and was well known as an educator, preacher, […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 20, 2011
The Civil War Veterans’ Card File of the Pennsylvania Archives is an excellent resource for information on individual Civil War soldiers who served in Pennsylvania regiments during the Civil War. It is one of many on-line resources available through the Pennsylvania Archives which are maintained by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at their web […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 14, 2011
(Part 2 of an on-going series of posts on the Battle of Gettysburg). In order to identify which of the 2000 Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, we must first identify the Pennsylvania regiments that fought at Gettysburg. According to histories of the battle, the Union lineup […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 12, 2011
A recent question from an Ancestry.com subscriber, “Where is Philip Zerby buried?” has led to a search of currently available information on Civil War burials of unknown soldiers, particularly of those who were killed in the battles in and around Petersburg, Virginia. Philip Zerby was born 27 September 1827, the son of Joseph Zerby and […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 10, 2011
5 Ulman Brothers – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1850 By most accounts, Lazarus Ulman was born about 1793 in Germany. One account says he was born in Russia and his native language was Yiddish. He emigrated to the United States sometime before 1828 and married Lydia Abrahams, who was born about 1808 in Pennsylvania. At the time […]
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